Please join us for the talk by William Goedel, Brown Faculty Fellow in University History, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, on “We must realize how little we know…”: Origins of Public Health at Brown University, 1834-1934.”

In 2023, the School of Public Health celebrated ten years of ‘learning public health by doing public health’. While the School often traces its origins to the establishment of the Department of Community Health in 1971, its roots run much deeper. Since the university’s founding, its faculty and alumni have played a critical role in shaping the development of public health as both an art and a science. In this talk, Prof. Goedel will aim to recount the history of Brown University’s earliest educational offerings in public health in the late 19th and early 20th century alongside its long-standing partnerships with Rhode Island’s city and state public health agencies and offer a vision for a strengthened academic-government partnership to meet the challenges of protecting and promoting the public’s health in the 21st century.

Origins of Public Health at Brown University, 1834-1934 • William Goedel (Brown)

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